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Hi!
I Have a Hauppauge WinTV 1300. It has a build in hardware mpeg 2 encoder which I can see in the hardware manager of windows (called "88x MPEG Encoder"). Is it possible that VLC uses this encoder to stream a camera video over ethernet? My CPU has only 1 GHz ant therefore it is a little bit slow.

If the camera outputs MPEG2 directly and VLC can read it, VLC doesn't need to reencode, so yes.